NEW DELHI -- India's cabinet accepted most of the recommendations
of a commission for toughening laws for crimes against women,
including increasing the penalty for rape.

The panel was set up in response to the fatal gang rape in
December of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi.

The cabinet recommended on Friday that the president issue an
ordinance to turn the proposals into law, Law Minister Ashwini Kumar
said.

The commission recommended an increase in the penalty for rape to
20 years and suggested life terms for gang rape.

The Press Trust of India news agency said the cabinet went beyond
the panel's recommendations by providing for death sentences in
cases in which a rape leads to the death of the victim or leaves her
in a "persistent vegetative state."

nigeria

18 Islamists killedin training camp raid

MAIDUGURI -- Nigerian soldiers attacked training camps for
suspected members of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram deep in a
game reserve in the nation's restive northeast in a raid that left
at least 18 people dead, a military spokesman said on Friday.

Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said soldiers backed up by attack helicopters
killed 17 "Boko Haram terrorists" in the fighting, and one soldier
was killed.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege,"
was blamed for killing at least 792 people in 2012.

England

Inspector gets term for phone hacking

LONDON -- A senior police officer was given a 15-month term in
prison on Friday, the first person sentenced in the wide-ranging
phone hacking inquiry in Britain.

Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn was convicted last month
of illegally attempting to sell information to a tabloid journalist
in 2010.

The decision was handed down by Judge Adrian Fulford, who called
Casburn's actions "a corrupt attempt to make money out of sensitive
and potentially very damaging information," according to a BBC
report. …

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